Amila Suriarachchi wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Andreas Veithen > <andreas.veit...@gmail.com <mailto:andreas.veit...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I would like to inform all of you that I decided to significantly > reduce my activity in the Axis2 project. Over the last months I have > worked primarily on JIRA issues and on improving the test suites of > SAAJ and ADB [1]. This work has put me in the line of fire of people > who are not willing or not able to let a discussion occur in a > constructive way. Considering that I dedicate some of my free time to > do this and that my professional life is already stressful enough, I > can live very well without this. Doing the dirty job of fixing bugs is > simply not worth it under these conditions. > > The fact is that in AXIS2-4465, I have implemented a fix that > inadvertently removed a public method and causing a subtle issue in a > dependent project. I have been immediately accused of drastic and > deliberate changes to public APIs and these accusations went as far as > talking about "merrily chang[ing] APIs" and "things are going to > become a big mess". In addition these accusations have been put > forward while being vague on the exact issue that the fix caused (the > complete information about this was only disclosed in the 35th post in > this thread). This caused the discussion to quickly degrade instead of > remaining focused on the facts and drawing the conclusions after > analyzing those facts. Furthermore, in another thread, my fix in > AXIS2-4465 has been implicitly put on a level with a proposed > modification that would change the deployment subsystem, dispatchers > and transports. I think that all this goes way beyond legitimate > criticism and also way beyond what one would expect in a constructive > discussion. > > > First of all I should thank you for your good work in Axis2 specially > for ADB. I think it is a coinside that all three people worked with > ADB codegen has the name starting with A (Ajith, Amila, Andreas) :) > > I feel sorry for the first reason you have mentioned. But I think this > is not the first time of that. If you see the > Deepals comments on what Isuru has done I can't see any positiveness. If you feel so I am so sorry, it was not intensional, I really like Axis2 not because I have contributed to it but because it is a useful project. When I see someone try to break something in the project it is hard for me to keep silent.
Even when I introduce the service group concept I wanted to reflect the concept of service group to outside as part of the URL and I wanted to do the same thing as Isuru trying to do now (/service/serviceGroup/Echo/echoString). But there we discussed and I listen to others and understood that taking "/" in URL is not a good idea, so I did not do that. That was at the very beginning of the project, but now the project is matured so we can not do the changes as we wish, we need to think future and past. Thank you, Deepal
